Where does Vallourec OIL AND GAS France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vallourec OIL AND GAS France ranks #2,493 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Vallourec OIL AND GAS France hold?

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France holds 157 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's Innovation Score?

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France has an Innovation Score of 55.3 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's patents?

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's patents average 13.1 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Vallourec OIL AND GAS France patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France

Q: What technology areas does Vallourec OIL AND GAS France focus on?

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 126 patents, ranking #25 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 157 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vallourec ranks #2,493 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 157 patents across 37 technology areas.

#2,493
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.3/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2493 · Foreign Corporation #2,493 · 157 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 157 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,493/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Paragon 28
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Paragon 28, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Vallourec’s 55.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 17.5 pts (32%) Velocity 8.5 pts (15%) Breadth 21.5 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vallourec OIL AND… · this assignee

55
Exergyn · near

55
NIO USA · near

55
Stryker European… · near

55
Wilcox Industries · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vallourec's Innovation Score is 55.3/100 (top 7% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Vallourec?

Each dot is one of Vallourec’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Vallourec’s own 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Vallourec vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Vallourec's grants concentrate

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 80.3% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (21 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2016. By volume, Vallourec sits between Paragon 28, Inc. and Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC.

Vallourec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vallourec OIL AND GAS France moved from 41 to 52 grants (1.27x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #687. See the growth leaderboard.

Paragon 28

157
Snaptrack

157
Space Systems/Lor…

157
Tivo Solutions

157
Whatsapp

157
Zhejiang Sunny Op…

157
Vallourec OIL AND… ◀

157
Accedian Networks

156
Axalta Coating Sy…

156

What this shows Vallourec holds 157 patents at rank #2,493, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vallourec

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,493 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Vallourec's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vallourec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Vallourec ranks #25 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

NIO USA, Inc. 55 Stryker European Holdings, LLC 55 Wilcox Industries Corp. 55 Exergyn, Ltd. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Leonardo S.P.A. 13.1 avg Huntsman International LLC 13.1 avg Zoetis Services LLC 13.1 avg Toppan Inc. 13.1 avg

Vallourec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Vallourec OIL AND GAS France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	8.9%
2016	9	5.7%
2017	15	9.6%
2018	13	8.3%
2019	21	13.4%
2020	9	5.7%
2021	11	7.0%
2022	21	13.4%
2023	13	8.3%
2024	18	11.5%
2025partial year	13	8.3%

Which technologies does Vallourec OIL AND GAS France patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 126

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 122

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 27

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 26

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 18

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 9

C22C - Alloys 7

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 6

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vallourec OIL AND GAS France's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 80.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #2,493 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vallourec OIL AND GAS France against Paragon 28, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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